Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions — Question 34

You have an Azure solution that contains a build pipeline in Azure Pipelines.
You experience intermittent delays before the build pipeline starts.
You need to reduce the time it takes to start the build pipeline.
What should you do?

Answer options

• A. Enable self-hosted build agents.
• B. Create a new agent pool.
• C. Split the build pipeline into multiple stages.
• D. Purchase an additional parallel job.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

Purchasing an additional parallel job allows more builds to run concurrently, which can significantly reduce wait times for the build pipeline to start. The other options may help with build performance but do not directly address the issue of reducing startup delays, such as self-hosted agents or splitting stages.